Transfer from Number to Size Reveals Abstract Coding of Magnitude in Honeybees

Summary: Number discrimination has been documented in honeybees. It is not known, however, whether it reflects, as in vertebrates, the operating of an underlying general magnitude system that estimates quantities irrespective of dimensions (e.g., number, space, time) and format (discrete, continuous...

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Main Authors: Maria Bortot, Gionata Stancher, Giorgio Vallortigara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-05-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004220303072